Typography/Design improvements

[klieret]

For being a text-heavy page (which we undoubtedly are), our base font size of 16px is unusually small. Most web design pages recommend 18px (or even larger) for such low-interaction websites.

Sources

• learnui.design
• w3-lab.com

I think this would also look much better on this kind of bleak, media deplete layout that most of our sub-pages have. Medium.com for example has even 21px!

[klieret]

I'd also suggest slightly increased page margin.

And perhaps there's more suggestions to make the design a bit friendlier?

[NinaPacifier]

@klieret I am new to open source contribution. May I work on its issue???

[klieret]

Hi @NinaPacifier sure, I haven't started working on this. Design changes are a bit of a "political" topic though, you need to convince people that the results looks better ;)

[NinaPacifier]

@klieret I will try my best :)

[vinayakd1729]

I see the font size of main text is 14px through inspect element. 16px seems good with relative to other headings and other elements. I have build some blogs on GitHub pages earlier and I have experience. May I work on this issue?

[hegner]

@vinayakd1729 - seems this ticket went a bit dormant. Feel free to prepare a merge request with your ideas. We can take it from there then.

[nimishbongale]

Can I take this up @hegner @klieret?

If I get the issue correctly, we are looking to increase the font size by a few px's?

[klieret]

Nobody has submitted a pull request for this so far, so I'm sure it's fine :) Should be pretty trivial code wise and more a question of good design :)

[nimishbongale]

I'd also suggest slightly increased page margin.
And perhaps there's more suggestions to make the design a bit friendlier?

The overall page margin looks fine to me @klieret, but maybe a little more would work as well! Any other suggestions?

[klieret]

@nimishbongale I'm pretty much an amateur in this area ;) Probably best to just play around with different things to tweak, create a couple of screenshots and see what people like :)

[klieret]

I haven't seen a PR to this date, so I will start one myself.

[klieret]

#964

[klieret]

another idea: #965

[nimishbongale]

Have been having some issues with my health lately, I'm sorry for not following up. I'll be sure to give in my insights though!

[klieret]

Health goes first! No pressure at all, hope you recover soon!

[klieret]

I think we now completed every change that we had discussed, so I will close this.